NTT DATA Focus

The automation paradox: Why smarter factories aren't delivering smarter outcomes

Spend any time with manufacturing executives and you'll start to hear the same message: The robotics push of the 2010s delivered real gains, at least for a while. Then, enterprise resource planning upgrades brought cleaner data and standardized processes, while IoT rollouts generated enormous amounts of sensor data.

September 24, 2026: Global

Frontier AI is here. Is your cybersecurity operating model ready?

When a critical software vulnerability is disclosed, security teams across industries already know the drill.

September 11, 2026: Global

Cybersecurity

The real AI opportunity: Reinvent how your organization operates

There's a familiar pattern playing out in my conversations with business leaders.

September 11, 2026: Global

Data & Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise software: What if customization was never the problem?

For most of my career, I heard the same advice repeated in boardrooms and software demonstrations: "Configure, don't customize."

August 21, 2026: Global

Enterprise Application Platforms

Retail leaders are rebuilding for AI - in the cloud

Retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies have made great strides in adopting AI. They're using it to make demand forecasting more accurate and consumer experiences more personalized, and they're streamlining supply chains and factory operations in new ways by reinventing operating models and ways of working.

August 13, 2026: Global

Cloud

International standardization to maximize the content industry and Japan's national interests

In the field of digital content, international standardization has become a strategic tool that influences the competitiveness of countries and companies. The proposal for blockchain-related standards originating in Japan, made by NTT DATA and JCBI, is a crucial initiative that will lead international discussions, and support the international expansion of Japan's content industry, protection of its rights, and creation of a market for the industry.

July 24, 2026: Global

Physical AI: Moving from cloud-centric AI to intelligence where work happens

AI is entering its most consequential phase. Beyond generating text or analyzing patterns, it's now moving, sensing and acting in the physical world - what the industry calls physical AI.

July 17, 2026: Global

Edge

Why cloud is the missing link in banking AI

AI projects are stalling everywhere in the banking industry.Boards have approved the budgets, pilot projects are running, there's a roadmap full of use cases, and the models are working … but not much is changing.

July 8, 2026: Global

Cloud

From point-in-time to all the time: Why security testing needs to evolve

For years, penetration testing has been the go-to method for validating an organization's cybersecurity posture. But development cycles move at lightning speed and threats evolve by the hour. So, is point-in-time testing still fit for purpose?

July 8, 2026: Global

Cybersecurity

Infrastructure is critical again: Here's what it means for every CIO

I have spent the better part of three decades advising CIOs of multinational corporations and public sector organizations with some of the world's most complex enterprise technology environments. I have watched enterprises navigate the internet era, the cloud era and the mobility era. Each wave changed how IT leaders think about infrastructure, but what's happening right now is different - more consequential, and more urgent than anything I've seen before.

July 1, 2026: Global

Technology Solutions

Keeping your network running isn't enough anymore

Most managed network services are designed to support business operations by keeping your infrastructure steady - always available and compliant with SLAs.

July 1, 2026: Global

Network

Banking looks beyond pilot projects to turn AI into business impact

Are you leading or lagging in AI? It's a complicated question, and in banking and financial services, the answer is beginning to determine real competitive advantage.

July 1, 2026: Global

Data & Artificial Intelligence

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